The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-11-02
FLORIDA.


-Four bear swere killed near Altoona last
week.
Sanford's orange box factory will soon be
in operation
There are sixty pupils in the rev St
Augustine public school.
q The new Methodist church at st. Angus
tine is ready for occupancy.
The orange groves Of Volusia county are
said TO be in excellent condition
Orlando maintains a quarantine patrol of
thirteen men. at a cost Of SO per day.
There are still about zoo men working
on the Ponce de Leon and Alcazar at St
Augustine.
A post Office has been established at Syl-
van Lake Orange county, with Leonard
Kelly as postmaster.
Capt E f Vail made an offer to rebuild
the old market at st. Augustine and put on
an iron roof for 500.
The artesian well borers at Key West
found roots, wood and well preserved leaves
of trees at depth of 500 feet
There is a rumor floating around Key
West of a deadly fever decimating the peo-
pie at Rock Sound, Bahamas.
In consequence of repainting and over
hauling the John Sylvester will not com
mence running TO Palatka until next week.
One hundred and eighty-five dollars was
collected by John T. Dismukes at St Au-
justine for the Tampa sufferers Thursday
Each of the two piazzas of the Harlan
Hotel at Lake Helen has $50 feet of
promenade or about nine turns for half
mile.
The Prohibitionists of Putnam county are
not at all daunted by the failure of their
first petition and are now getting up an
other.
The steamer Hutchinson from Havana
for New Orleans, via Key West, had forty
six Cinnamon as deck passengers for New
Orleans Friday morning.
There are 1900 piles in the foundation of
the Alcazar at St Augustine The work is
going ahead rapidly now, plasterers and
painters being at work.
Redden W. Parramore died at his home
in Madison last Saturday night, and was
buried Sunday afternoon. He had been a
sufferer for many years. He leaves wife
and three children.
d. B. Usina has signed a contract with
Manager o. d. Seavey to furnish the Ponce
de Leon Hotel, at st. Augustine, with milk.
the coming winter Three hundred quarts
per day viii be required at first, to be in
creased as may be desired.
Large numbers of buildings are still
going up in all parts of ST. Augustine. The
| new union depot will shortly be erected the
plans being now in the city. The roof has
| been put on the old portion of the cathedral
! 1t viii be covered with slate
A great many new voters are being regis
tered at st. Augustine, and it is probable
that the registration list viii foot up nearly
1900. There was 1875 on the list last year.
and over 100 have been Sticken off on ac-
count of departure from the city and death.
A young man employed as cook by Mr..
| Rodriguez, the manufacturer, at his resi-
dence on Eaton street, Key West, hung
himself with a clothes line in back room
Saturday afternoon, and was not discovered
until stiff. Disappointment in love is sup
posed TO have caused it,
j. c. Vining, of Oxford, has a field that
| has produced thirteen crops of corn in sue
cession, and much of it produces thirty to
thirty-fve bushels per acre. There is a
great growth of beggar weed on the land,
which keeps it good Old farmers say that
the beggar weed will improve land every
| year.
Two prisoners who were confined in the
| lookup at Lake Helen escaped Thursday
evening. They are supposed to have been
aided in their escape by parties on the out.
side. The missing ones are Lewis, a shoe
maker, arrested on charges of theft, and a
negro who kept the pool room, charged
with selling whisky.
Up to date there has been paid into the
Madison county treasury for licenses 81
! 0j7 %. which was pald by seYenty-two indi-